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L. c. SESSION. Bidding Guid for Sewing Machines.

No. 24,721,. I Patentd Feb. 18,1868.

N. PEIEIS. Pbolobilmgnplwr. Wailinm EC LYMAN G. SESSION, OF NEENAH, WISCONSIN.-

Letters Patent No. 74,727, dated February 18, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN BINDING-GUIDE FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

I Be it known that I, LYMAN C. SESSION, of Neenah, Winnebago county, State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and improved Cloth-Binder to be Attached to and Used upon any Scn'ingMachino; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

A is the bottom or base-plate, which consists of a piece of brass or other metal, of about three inches in length and two inches in width across the front or jaw-end, turned up at the front about one-half inch at the left side, and one-fourth inch at the right side, and provided with a bevel-notch, F, through which plays the edge 6 of upper jaw B. The base-plate is slotted through the centre about one and one-half inch in length,

and through this slotpasscs a thumb-screw, E, by means of which the binder is attached to the machine. B is the upper jaw, slotted like A, bent up at right angles at D, and provided with apron or lip C is the lower jaw, constructed the same as the upper jaw B, with the exception of short bend .D and apron b or lip, but moves,

in connection with B, backwards and forwards upon the thulnb-screw E, to adapt it to any width of binding The ends of the jaws are bent over in the usual form of binders, and the hooked or bent ends have diagl'nml grooves made therein, for guiding the material being bound against the piece A. The pieces B C are made of elastic metal. The front consists of a jaw in vise-form, and diagonal grooves, slanting to the right, made therein on the inside of the jaws, for conveying the cloth parallel with the front end, and also holding the cloth suflicientl'y tight, so as not to leave the binding loose upon the edge of the cloth. The binder is to be made of material suificiently elastic to rise and fall, as the thickness of the cloth to be boundmay require.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- A binding-guide, consisting of the pieces A B G and set-screw E, all constructed, arranged, and operating as and for the purpose set forth. I

LYMAN G. SESSION.

Witnesses:

W. A. WILKEs, G120. WILLOOX. 

